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Show H EXPOSITIONS WILL ., . INCREASE IMMIGRATION j j H I Referring again to the immi- H j gration bill which has occupied H so 1 much of the attention of H ' Congress and the President at H this lime session, it mustbe ad- mitted thaV'ithe opening of the Hi Panama-Canal will bring the I Pacific Coast and the adjacent Western and Intra-Mountain States face to face with new problems rising form the .influx of thosands of aliens. The North German Lloyd,, the Ham burg-American, an 3 others of the great steamship lines will ran their ships direct from European Euro-pean ports to the Pacific Coast. It is quite natural that the immigrants im-migrants will land at the first port of call, San Diego, unless they are destined for British Columbia, and that from San Diego they will be, distributed to points in California, Utah, Oregon, Arizon, Nevada, Colorado, Colo-rado, and more. distant States. During the exposition year of 1915 this tide of travel will be influenced to some extent by the great display of world's industries indust-ries at San Diego. The States are getting ready to meet this question. It must be met. The great West is anxious to receive immigrants of the sturdy type that has done much already to build up the lands'West of the Ohio and the Mississippi, and" if they are sound physically and mentally, and clean morally, they will be welcomed. |